Section 2

WWI Battlefield

-Trench warfare

-New weapons (poison gas, machine guns, artillery, tanks, aircraft)

War on the Home Front

-WWI was a “total war”

-Required all the resources of a country

-Factories converted to make weapons

-Public conserved food, recycled

-Propaganda

-Posters, pamphlets, articles

-Women

-Women started working in factories (men fighting)

-Nurses

Battles on the Western Front

-Italy

-Italy joined war for Allies in 1915àstarted fighting AH on border

-Battle of Verdun (1916)

-Old, important French fortress in eastern France

-Germany knew French would defend it at all costs

-Goal was to kill as many French

-400k casualties (Germany had same)

-Battle of the Somme (1916)

-First day, British had 60k casualties

-3^rd Battle of Ypres (1917)

-Failed British offensive

-None of these battles gained land/momentum for either side

War Around the World

-Gallipoli (1915)

-Dardanelles was a passage from Black to Mediterranean Sea

-Allies used it to supply Russians

-Allies tried to gain control of passage

-200k casualtiesàbasically gave up

-British did help Arabs overthrow Ottoman rule after Gallipoli

-Armenian Massacre (1915)

-Ottomans (Muslim) believed Armenians (Christians) were helping Russians

-Started “removing” Armenians from area

-600k died, 600k deported

-Genocide (killing of an ethnic group)

-Japanese captured German colonies in Asia

-British and French attacked German colonies in Africa

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